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  • By Cheyenne Fauvel and Katie Patrice |
  • March 31, 2011
Students find touching story in 'The Lost Thing'

Through Sarasota Film Festival's Outreach and Education Department, middle-school classes participated in the Classroom Critic program and screened official short films selected for the festival's youthFEST. This week, a seventh-grader at St. Stephen's Episcopal School and a sixth-grader at Out-of-Door Academy review 'The Lost Thing.'

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 31, 2011
Students find touching story in 'The Lost Thing'

Through Sarasota Film Festival's Outreach and Education Department, middle-school classes participated in the Classroom Critic program and screened official short films selected for the festival's youthFEST. This week, a seventh-grader at St. Stephen's Episcopal School and a sixth-grader at Out-of-Door Academy review 'The Lost Thing.'

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 31, 2011
Students find touching story in 'The Lost Thing'

Through Sarasota Film Festival's Outreach and Education Department, middle-school classes participated in the Classroom Critic program and screened official short films selected for the festival's youthFEST. This week, a seventh-grader at St. Stephen's Episcopal School and a sixth-grader at Out-of-Door Academy review 'The Lost Thing.'

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • March 30, 2011
Firm clears Foster & Foster

The Segal Group, which performed an independent study of the firefighters pension actuary, found the firm acted correctly and committed no wrongdoing.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 6, 2014
Election 2014: Sarasota County School Board

This is the second of a three-week installment featuring candidate questionnaires for the local races in the Aug. 26 primary election. This week includes candidates for the Sarasota County School Board and Charter Review Board.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 8, 2013
Our View: Looking forward

In a week or so, all of our local governments will be releasing their proposed budgets for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, which will begin in October.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • November 10, 2011
Panhandling draws fine line

The city of Sarasota has a much more lax ordinance for street panhandlers than those enforced by neighboring municipalities and counties.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Bruce St. Denis. File photo.
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • November 10, 2011
FULL STORY: St. Denis misses cut for administrator

The list of finalists for Sarasota County administrator includes two Floridians and applicants from York County, S.C., and Augusta, Ga.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • April 30, 2009
Key repaving project begins

The repaving project for the Manatee County side of Gulf of Mexico Drive began Monday, with lane closures.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 24, 2013
Holiday wish lists

East County leaders and residents unwrap their wishes for 2014.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
"I love it. It's my passion," Erendira Wallenda says. "Think of anything you love doing (the most), and that's what we get. That's where I feel most alive."
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • January 23, 2013
Princess of the High Wire: Erendira Wallenda

Erendira Wallenda's life is a balancing act between her responsibilities as a mother and walking the tightrope - sans safety net.

  • Arts + Culture
Lakewood Ranch High senior Quillan Toler lays down a bunt during the sixth inning of the Lady Mustangs 7-0 victory over Tampa Jefferson in the Class 6A-District 12 quarterfinals April 24.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • May 2, 2012
Lady Mustangs keep title hopes alive

The Lakewood Ranch High softball team advanced to the Class 3A-Region 3 finals with a 5-4 victory over Seminole Osceola in a regional semifinal April 27.

  • East County
  • Sports
"I like to think of myself as a fairy godmother who can take an idea and turn it into something you'd want to wear," Jen King Elliot says.
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • March 23, 2011
Material girl

Jen King Elliot shares her journey from Ringling College, to Broadway's 'Contact,' to this weekend's fifth annual Fuzión dance concert.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Rod Thomson |
  • January 21, 2010
School tax primer for everyone

School tax primer for everyone

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 13, 2014
Election 2014: Sarasota County Hospital Board

This is the final installment featuring candidate questionnaires for the local races in the Aug. 26 primary election. This week includes candidates for the Sarasota County 12th Circuit Court Judge and Hospital Board.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • November 25, 2009
Tara club completes golf course renovation

After nearly eight months, Tara Golf & Country Club will unveil its golf course during a grand opening celebration Dec. 1.

  • East County
  • Sports
Tenor Rafael Dávila, as B.F. Pinkerton, and soprano Asako Tamura, as Cio-Cio-San, in Sarasota Opera’s 2011 production of Puccini’s "Madama Butterfly." Photo by Rod Millington/Sarasota Opera.
  • By June LeBell |
  • November 2, 2011
Music Review: Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly' performed by the Sarasota Opera

I have wept through many a moving 'Madama Butterfly,' from the Met and New York City Opera to companies abroad and cinematic versions that broke my heart, but the fall production mounted by Sarasota Opera is the most convincing, honest, moving and beautiful I've seen yet.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Kent Chetlain |
  • November 24, 2009
A unit in Grand Bay sells for $700,000

Unit 342 at Grand Bay condominiums has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 2,143 square feet of living area. It sold for $700,000.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Alec Zec prepares for his final season playing hockey for the Sarasota Rampage.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • September 20, 2012
CHARGING AHEAD: Alec Zec

Mooney senior Alec Zec begins his final season with the Sarasota Couny high school hockey team Sept. 21. This will be his fourth season with the Rampage.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Nadon |
  • April 7, 2010
Lights! Camera! Action!

The 12th annual Sarasota Film Festival has it all, and the lineup looks downright dazzling.

  • Arts + Culture
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